Justify Breaking A Law

 

Many circumstances that justify breaking laws certainly exist in the history. From the Africa-American Civil Rights Movement to Velvet Revolution, a term, called Civil disobedience, specializes nonviolent actions taken in theses circumstances. “Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.” (Wikipedia Civil disobedience) For instance, Mahatma Gandhi, known as the preeminent leader of India independence movements from the British Empire, led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit Idia in 1942, during World War II. (Wikipedia Mahatma Gandhi) He was imprisoned for that and for numerous other political offenses over the years. It is worldwide believed that Gandhi breaking the laws is justified in term of the numerous non-violent actions which defense for promoting India democratic freedom and protesting Indians human rights. He rebelled against the laws deemed to be unfair and was firmly convinced that citizens were morally responsible for the support of civil campaigns and unjust situations. In recent years, the rights of homosexual couples might be an unjust law. They cannot receive the rights that married couples have. For example, one partner would be not allowed to accompany with the other through it all if he or she were dying in the hospital due to being not legally considered “ family”. The homosexual marriage issues today is rather similar to the racism issues in the civil movement because they are both related to the rights for different groups of people in the society---- one is homosexual groups and heterosexual groups and the other is white people and colored people. 

Shirley